This week the weather has been a bit wet and cloudy on both days I have been there-Monday was a public holiday with great weather so doesn’t count. Tomorrow is supposed to be warm again and sunny-very like a normal spring, the weather can’t help but be all over the place!

Every spring, eucalyptus trees shed their bark. Interesting bark gets even more interesting, as you can see below (or, it is just me with the odd shedding bark fettish!). There are more colours and textures to look at, which is as pretty as flowers in the right situation.

These too rose flowers come from the same plant. How does this work? The purple one comes from the rootstock that the white Iceberg rose plant was grafted on to. The rootstock, at some point in the past, did a bit of suckering from the roots, which was not removed. This has resulted in the two different flowers on the same plant. Thankfully, the Iceberg section (the scion) seems to be happy and healthy-usually, the rootstock takes over due to bring more vigorous.

I love the flowers from bottlebrush’s. This is a fine example of such a flower, and why I love native Australian plants.

Woolly bush is a random shrub, it looks a little ‘fluffy’. I’ve never seen any flowers on it, but like it for its unique look.

Honeysuckle flowers are rather pretty, even if I find the plant a bit average at best. This one is growing through another less than average plant-a plumbago hedge. Needless to say that it is in a random almost forgotten corner, so it doesn’t really get seen.

Kangaroo paws are another random Australian native. They are colourful, look odd and are named after an Australian animal. I like oddballs in the natural world.

That’s all for today, I hope you have a gorgeous d evening.